RC Parida and PK Ghosh

The Paris Agreement 2015 aims at limiting global warming to well below 2°C above the pre-industrial level, preferably pursuing the efforts to arrest the increase below 1.5°C through reaching zero emissions by the year 2050. The goal has to be achieved through nationally determined contributions, where each country can set its own emission reduction target. However, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the temperature of our planet is already on the verge of exceeding 1.5°C and is very likely to breach the 2°C limit much before the end of the century. Its impacts on our environment and ecology have already become apparent in the forms of many devastative natural calamities — beginning from the increased risks of extreme weather events like intense heatwaves, droughts, floods, storms, rising sea levels that threaten coastal communities and marine ecosystems, disruptions of other ecosystems leading to habitat loss, biodiversity decline and…read more on NOPR